JP3032399B2 - Kana-Kanji conversion device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion apparatus, and more particularly, to a kana-kanji conversion apparatus used for a Japanese word processor, an electronic notebook, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A method of converting Arabic numerals into Kanji numerals (hereinafter referred to as Kanji numeral conversion) is based on a conventional processing unit such as a prefix numeral, a numeral and a postscript, as disclosed in JP-A-2-67676 and JP-A-4-98357. In the case where a phrase consisting of a set numerator has no prefix suffix or postfix suffix, or if there is no both, the processing is performed in units of a bunsetsu. Therefore, when the conversion result is divided into multiple phrases, it is necessary to perform correction in units of phrases.

[0003]

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-98357
Then, the type of the already determined Chinese numeral string is stored with the presence / absence of a classifier following the Chinese numeral string and the word information of the classifier, and when the Arabic numeral string input thereafter is converted into Chinese numerals, the stored classifier is used. There was a method of determining the output order based on information.

[0004] However, in this method, the input of numerics is handled on a phrase basis, and therefore, in order to correspond to a numeric string input in a continuous phrase, it is necessary to deal with each phrase.

[0005] For example, for the input "1993 2nd 15", the first conversion result is "1993/2
When the date is "Month / 15th /", the user wants to change the conversion result to "1993 / Feb / 15th /".

Here, the portion written with "/" is written for the sake of convenience to indicate a break in a phrase, and is not actually displayed as a conversion result.

In the conventional phrase unit method, first, "199
Change "3rd year" to "1993", then move the phrase, change "February" to "February", move the phrase in the same way, and change "15th" to "15th day". ”Was required. It is rare to use a related phrase such as "February / 15 /" with a different type of numeral such as "February / 15th /" or "February 15 /". It is common to use the same type of kanji numerals, and the conversion operation of making each phrase the same as the kanji expression is very troublesome, and there is a disadvantage that the operation efficiency is reduced . SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a kana-kanji conversion device capable of reducing a user's burden in converting a Chinese character.

[0008]

An input means for inputting a character, a conversion table having a character string input by the input means and a character string including a kanji corresponding to the input character string, and an input character Kana-kanji conversion means for converting a string into a character string containing kanji using a conversion table, storage means for storing an input character string and a character string converted by the conversion means, and a converted character string A homonym selecting means for selecting a homonym, a display means for displaying an input character string and the converted character string, and a numeral phrase containing Arabic numerals relating to the converted character string having the same sound as a predetermined expression. When a word is selected, a kana-kanji conversion means and a control means for controlling the operation of the homonym selection means are provided so that another numeral part phrase following the numeral part is converted into a predetermined expression.

[0009]

In the case where a numeral phrase including Arabic numerals is selected as a homophone for a predetermined expression with respect to the converted character string, the control means converts the other numeral phrases following the numeral phrase into the predetermined expression. Since the operations of the kana-kanji conversion means and the homophone selection means are controlled, the burden of the conversion operation on the user can be greatly reduced as compared with the case where the kanji selection of the kanji numerals is performed for each phrase.

[0010]

An embodiment of the kana-kanji conversion apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an entire apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing details of the configuration of the embodiment.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes an input device such as a keyboard device, a tablet device, or a pointing device;
Reference numeral 12 denotes a storage unit that stores a kana string composed of kana characters input from the input device 11 and a conversion result by a conversion unit described later, and 13 denotes a dictionary table, and stores a large number of words including kanji together with their reading information. . 14 is Table 1
Is a table for comparing Arabic numerals and Chinese numerals as shown in FIG.

[0013]

[Table 1]

Reference numeral 15 denotes a homonym selecting means for performing homonym selection when the converted result is not the desired one. Reference numeral 16 denotes conversion means for converting the kana sequence input in the storage means 12 into kanji mixed characters using the dictionary table 13 and the kanji conversion table 14, and 17 denotes kana characters and kanji mixed characters stored in the storage means 12. It is a display means for performing display.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 denotes a control device for controlling the operation of each device for performing kana-kanji conversion, and 22 denotes a CRT.
A display unit such as an LCD, etc .; 23, an input unit such as a keyboard; 24, a dictionary unit for storing data of independent words and attached words; Reference numeral 26 denotes a conversion processing unit for performing kana-kanji conversion, 27 denotes a kanji conversion processing unit for performing kanji conversion, and the kanji conversion processing unit 27 performs kanji conversion using the kanji conversion table 25. Reference numeral 28 denotes a buffer for storing input characters, converted results, and the like.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the procedure for selecting a homonym during the kana-kanji conversion operation in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. Is a flowchart showing the details of (1).

In FIG. 4, it is checked whether or not there is an Arabic numeral in the phrase for which the same word is selected (4-1). If there is no Arabic numeral, general homophone processing is performed (4-3).
Here, the general homonymic processing is homonymic processing of a phrase that does not include a numeral, and details thereof will not be described here. If there is an Arabic numeral in the phrase for which the homonym selection is to be performed, a Chinese numeral homonym process is performed (4-2). The homonym processing of the Kanji numeral conversion ends (4-2) when the homonym processing ends.

Referring to FIG. 5, when the first candidate for kana-kanji conversion is "1993 / February / 15th /" and the user changes to "1993 / February / 15th /" Will be described.

Here, the portion written with "/" is written for the sake of convenience to indicate a break in a phrase, and is not actually displayed as a conversion result.

First, the user designates the phrase "1993" in order to change "1993" to "1993", and generally presses the next candidate selection key to generate the same sound. A word selection instruction operation is performed to change to "1993" (5-1).
Then, the pattern of the kanji selected by the same phonetic word is examined and extracted (5-2). As shown in Table 2, the patterns are: 1) Arabic numerals, 2) Arranged new Han numerals, 3) ranked new Han numerals,
4) There are four types of old Chinese numbers with a rank.

[0021]

[Table 2]

Next, the processing target phrase is shifted backward by one (5-3), there is a phrase there (5-4), and it is checked whether it is a numerical phrase phrase (5-5). If there is no phrase or if it is not a numerical phrase phrase, the process ends. If the processing target phrase is a numeric phrase, that is, the processing target phrase is "February", and the target phrase is changed based on the Kanji pattern extracted in step 5-2 (5-6). in this case,
The kanji pattern extracted in the 5-2 step is 2) row type new kanji conversion in Table 2, so "February" is converted to "February". The process returns to step 5-3, and continues until the remaining phrase disappears or it is no longer a numeral phrase phrase. Thus, “1993 / February / 15th /” is converted to “1993 / February / 15th /”.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing another configuration of the embodiment, FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining a processing procedure by another configuration, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an inter-phrase rule table. .

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 31 denotes an inter-phrase rule table as shown in FIG. 8, which is a table in which rules for permitting the continuation of numeral phrases are written. Here, N in FIG.
Indicates a digit string, / indicates a break in a phrase, and [] indicates that it can be omitted.

"1993 / February / 15th /" corresponds to the table of N years / [Nmonth / [Nday /]] at the top of FIG. For example, "December / 1993" matches the same table as above except that [N day /] is omitted.

Reference numeral 32 denotes an inter-phrase rule test processing unit which tests whether or not the rules of the inter-phrase rule table and the input consecutive numeral phrases are the same.

FIG. 6 is another flowchart showing details of the homophone processing of the Kanji numeral conversion of FIG.

In FIG. 6, an inter-phrase rule verification process is added to the flowchart of FIG. 5 (6-6). Other steps are the same as those in the flowchart of FIG. 5 except that a step 6-5 is added between steps 5-5 and 5-6 in FIG.

By limiting the classifier in each of the continuous number phrase phrases, it is possible to prevent conversion to an incorrect Chinese numeral when it is not desired to use a different Chinese numeral. FIG. 7 is a further flowchart showing the details of the homophone processing of the Chinese-numeric conversion of FIG. 4, and FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a table of possible internumeric words.

In the processing of FIG. 5, changing the expression of Chinese numerals is a continuous number phrase, but the processing of FIG. 7 may include a phrase having no number between a number segment and a number phrase. Processing. At this time, if a phrase is inserted unconditionally, there is a high possibility of erroneous conversion. Therefore, words that may be present between the numeral phrases are preliminarily defined as possible internumeric word tables (described in one embodiment in FIG. 9). Have prepared, it is not a number phrase, but (7
-5) The process of changing the expression of Chinese numerals is continued only when the word between the number phrases is in the inter-numerable word table (7-7). Other processes are the same as those in FIG.

The target of changing the Chinese numerals may be a continuous number phrase and all Arabic numeral strings in the entire sentence already input. Also, in this case, when exchanging Arabic numeral strings of the entire input text, it may be recommended to confirm with the user whether or not each of the numeral strings is to be converted into a Kanji numeral string of the same expression.

As described above, changing "February 15, 1993" to "February 15, 1993" by "1"
In the present embodiment, the next candidate was selected in each of the phrases “993”, “February”, and “15th”.
By selecting the next candidate in the phrase "3 years", "Feb. 15, 1993" can be obtained, and the same kanji expression can be obtained at a time. Operation efficiency can be improved.

Further, even when the number phrases are not continuous, by preparing in advance words that may exist between the number phrases, the efficiency of the user's operation can be further improved.

Further, the unification of the Chinese characters in the entire input text can be ensured and the change can be easily made, so that the efficiency of the operation of the user can be remarkably improved.

[0035]

According to the present invention, when a numeral phrase including Arabic numerals is selected as a homonym for a predetermined expression with respect to the converted character string, another numeral phrase which follows the numeral phrase is converted to a predetermined expression. Since the operations of the kana-kanji conversion means and the homonym selection means are controlled, the burden of the user's conversion operation can be greatly reduced as compared with the case where the kanji of the kanji is selected for each phrase.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an entire device of an embodiment of a kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing details of a configuration of an embodiment of a kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing another configuration of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for explaining a processing procedure of homophone selection in the middle of kana-kanji conversion operation in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2;
It is a chart.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing details of the homophone processing of the Chinese numeral conversion of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is another flowchart showing details of the homophone processing of the Chinese numeral conversion of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is still another flowchart showing details of the homophone processing of the kanji conversion of FIG. 4;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an inter-phrase rule table.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an internumeric possible word table.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 21 Control part 22 Display part 23 Input part 24 Dictionary table 25 Kanji number conversion table 26 Kana-kanji conversion processing part 27 Kanji number conversion processing part 28 Buffer

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] An input unit for inputting a character; a conversion table having a character string input by the input unit and a character string including a kanji corresponding to the input character string; Kana-kanji conversion means for converting to a character string containing kanji using the conversion table, storage means for storing the input character string and the character string converted by the conversion means, and the converted character string A homonym selecting means for selecting a homonym, a display means for displaying the input character string and the converted character string, and a numeral phrase including Arabic numerals relating to the converted character string having a predetermined expression. When a homonym is selected, a control means for controlling the operations of the kana-kanji conversion means and the homonym selection means so that another numeral phrasal phrase following the numerical phrasal phrase is converted into the predetermined expression. A kana-kanji conversion device characterized by including a step. 2. The kana-kanji conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined expression is any one of a row type new kanji, a ranked new kanji and a ranked old kanji. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to determine whether a phrase that does not include the numeral is included between the numeral phrase and the other numeral phrase only when the phrase that does not include the numeral is a predetermined phrase. 2. The kana-kanji conversion device according to claim 1, wherein an operation of the kana-kanji conversion means and the homonym selection means is controlled so that the other numeral phrases are converted into the predetermined expression. 4. The control means controls the operation of the kana-kanji conversion means and the homonym selection means so that all other numeral phrases in the input character string are converted into the predetermined expression. The kana-kanji conversion device according to claim 1, wherein: 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control unit performs an inter-phrase rule test on another numeral phrase following the numeral phrase to determine the inter-phrase interval.
Controlling the operation of the kana-kanji conversion means and the homonym selection means so that after confirming that they match the rules of the rule table, the other numeral phrases are converted into the predetermined expression according to the inter-phrase rules. The kana-kanji conversion device according to claim 1, wherein: